As a kid was there a particular fictional character that you really wanted to be ? Or have there been fictional characters in books that you admired or loathed or epitomised a particular quality for you? One that springs to mind periodically.
I havent read any Dickens for years but some of his characters, even if sometimes a little deliberately one dimensional were portrayed in such detail that the character and the quality become embroiled. I started thinking about this because of Candidlynuts recent thread in which a poster masquerades as humble just like Dickens "I'm ever so 'umble I am" - Uriah Heep character.
For me Miss Havisham in Great Expectations made a huge and lasting impression both in the book and the film with little Johnny Mills. A woman who was scorned and turned her wrath on all mankind and sought to turn her charge Estella into a hater of men too.